The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this...
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2011
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Celebrated writer and director John Sayles uses America's occupation of the Philippines at the dawn of the 20th century as an...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2011
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From Screenplay by
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2010
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Ten of the world's great filmmakers discuss their art, their influences and their creative motivations in this documentary....
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2010
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Acclaimed animator and independent filmmaker Emily Hubley directed this offbeat fusion of animation and live action. Mona...
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2009
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A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood...
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2009
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To countless avant-garde novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights, publisher Barney Rosset -- proprietor of the legendary Grove...
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2008
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The passing of a Mexican Jew whose appetite for life was stronger than his spiritual discipline makes for a difficult set of...
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Executive Producer
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2008
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Mark S. Waters's adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family...
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Screenwriter
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2008
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Tyrone (Danny Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2007
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The documentary Edge of Outside works as an introductory primer to the careers of some great filmmakers, but offers little...
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2006
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Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways...
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2005
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Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2004
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Screenwriter
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2004
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John Sayles' Casa de los Babys tells the tale of a half-dozen American women who travel to Latin America in order to pick up...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2003
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Writer and director John Sayles returns with another multi-layered look at an American community, subtly exploring how race,...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2002
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Karyn Kusama makes her debut with this sensitive, subtly told coming-of-age story about boxing and love. Diana...
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Executive Producer, Science Teacher
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2000
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Santitos is a character-driven comedy about a young Mexican woman who has to come to terms with the loss of her teenage...
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Executive Producer
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2000
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Kevin Mukherji directs the documentary American Storytellers. Offering discussion about independent filmmaking, the film...
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2000
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Writer/director John Sayles once again takes his audience to a place they may never have been before (this time both...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1999
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1999
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While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a...
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Screenwriter
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1997
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A powerful political allegory set in an unnamed Latin American country, Men With Guns concerns Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi),...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1997
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While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a...
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Screenwriter
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1997
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In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two...
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1997
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Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1996
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Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars...
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Screenwriter
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1995
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The magic of folklore forms the basis of this Irish tale by writer-director John Sayles. Adapted from the book...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1994
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Seemingly content living the life of a derelict, former mercenary Nick (Dolph Lundgren) agrees -- reluctantly and only after...
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Screenwriter
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1994
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Eric Schaeffer and Donald Ward managed to scrape together 22,000 dollars to make this independent film about the making of an...
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1993
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With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1992
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Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the...
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1992
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Dolly Parton and James Woods as the screen's hottest new romantic team? That's only one of several casting surprises in this...
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1992
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1992
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A city pulses with racial problems, political corruption, and small-time crime in this ambitious microcosm of urban life,...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1991
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Anthony John Denison stars as Carmine DeCarlo, a man trying to break free of familial mob ties after his middle-aged lover...
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1990
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Okinawan-born filmmaker Go Takamine directs this hallucinogenic Robin Hood-style tale set in the director's native island in...
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High commissioner
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1990
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Screenwriter
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1989
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Cynical Philadelphia lawyer-turned-p.i. Jamey Sheridan aims his investigatory skills at an international smuggling ring....
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Screenwriter
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1989
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Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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Independent filmmaker John Sayles creates one of his more artistic works with this period feature about a volatile 1920s...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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After his hippie parents are killed in a botched drug deal, a child is taken in by a bag lady in this implausible drama. Wild...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1987
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A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the...
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1986
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In this odd mix of social commentary, forbidden romance, police action thriller, and teenage delinquency, a well-meaning...
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Don
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1986
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Screenwriter
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1986
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Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange...
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1986
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Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1984
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1983
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute is a compilation film of three feminist yet disheartening stories of failed...
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Screenwriter
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1983
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In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1983
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1982
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This groundbreaking, darkly comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways...
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Screenwriter
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1981
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College friends reunite for a New England summer weekend in this low-budget first feature by accomplished independent...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1980
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Screenwriter
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1980
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Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the...
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Screenwriter
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1980
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Produced by Roger Corman and scripted by John Sayles, Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheerfully blatant imitation of...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1980
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Escaping from her childhood life of poverty and abuse on the farm, in the 1930s, Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) sets her...
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Screenwriter
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1979
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The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1978
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